Their
domestic affairs moved with the smoothness of a perfectly balanced
machine. To the very uttermost Hazel enjoyed the well-appointed
orderliness of it all, the unruffled placidity of an existence where
the unexpected, the disagreeable, the uncouth, was wholly eliminated,
where all the strange shifts and struggles of her two years beyond the
Rockies were altogether absent and impossible. Bill's views he kept
largely to himself. And Hazel began to nurse the idea that he was
looking upon civilization with a kindlier eye.
Ultimately, spring overspread the eastern provinces. And when the
snows of winter successively gave way to muddy streets and then to
clean pavements in the city of Granville, a new gilt sign was lettered
across the windows of the brokerage office in which Paul Lorimer was
housed.
FREE GOLD MINING COMPANY
P. H. Lorimer, Pres. J. L. Brooks, Sec.-Treas.
William Wagstaff, Manager.
So it ran. Bill was commissioned in the army of business at last.
CHAPTER XXVII
A BUSINESS JOURNEY
"I have to go to the Klappan," Bill apprised his wife one evening.
"Want to come along?"
Hazel hesitated. Her first instinctive feeling was one of reluctance
to retrace that nerve-trying trail.
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